It has successively won the honorary titles of "Guangdong Civilized Library", "National Civilized Library", "Guangdong Advanced Collective of Cultural System" and "National Advanced Collective of Cultural System". It was rated as "readers' favorite library" by the Ministry of Culture.
In 2007, it was rated as the "department leader" of the provincial system by the Provincial Organs Working Committee;
The "Guangdong Mobile Library" and "Online Joint Reference Service" organized and implemented by Zhongshan Library won the 14th National Stars Award, the highest national cultural award.
He was awarded the first innovation award and the second innovation award by the Ministry of Culture.
Nearly a hundred years' efforts have created the brilliance of Zhongshan Library. Today, with the concept of humanistic care, cultural context and high-tech reconstruction, Zhongshan Library strives to play the role of cultural center, making it the cradle of multiculturalism, the research base of social elites and the spiritual home of the people, and making greater contributions to continuously enriching people's spiritual world, enhancing people's spiritual strength and building socialist spiritual civilization. In 2003, Guangdong Provincial Government officially approved the reconstruction and expansion project of Guangdong Provincial Sun Yat-sen Library, with a total investment of 500 million yuan, covering a total area of 68,000 square meters and a total construction area of 103599 square meters. The library is located in the North Pillow Confucius Temple, west to Gong Xue and Gong Yuan, Donghan, with a long history and Yu Xiu, Zhong Ling. The whole project takes advocating ecology, giving priority to energy conservation, practicing frugality and enriching humanities as the core, which fully embodies the three core values of contemporary architecture: modernity, nature and humanity. In 2008, it was awarded by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development "Double Hundred Demonstration Projects of Green Building and Low Energy Consumption Building". The future Guangdong Provincial Sun Yat-sen Library will be a landmark building with China style, national style and Lingnan characteristics, a modern interpretation of the cultural carrier of China's book collection, a cultural symbol of Guangdong's cultural heritage, and play an increasingly important role in the construction of Guangdong Province.